ABSTRACT
This chapter explains therapeutic assessment of a Man With “ADD”. The first complete published case study of a psychological assessment is conducted by the methods of Therapeutic Assessment. A detailed, comprehensive example of Therapeutic Assessment in action will help those psychologists attempting to use this approach on their own. At the end of the session, David and the author discussed what we had learned so far that day: He had long-standing problems with attention, concentration, and organization, but those problems were neither due to drug and alcohol use nor to "phasing out". In Therapeutic Assessment, one often follows standardized test administration by engaging clients in targeted, collaborative discussions of their experience of a test or of their responses. In Therapeutic Assessment, assessment intervention sessions are special testing sessions sometimes conducted after standardized testing is completed to explore working hypotheses about clients' problems in living and give them a chance to collaboratively reach new understandings.
